Systems Engineer Marine Systems - Systems Architect (Interim)

About us

Get on board with Damen Naval, along with more than 1,200 professionals based in Vlissingen, Schiedam, Romania, Germany, and Indonesia. We are the marine division of the family-owned Damen Shipyards Group which employs globally 12,000 professionals. Damen Naval supplies advanced naval vessels to customers all over the world. With a passion for technological innovation and sustainable solutions, we continue to push the boundaries in the shipbuilding sector. You can be part of our team! Are you ready for duty?

The role

As interim Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect at Damen Naval, you will ensure project processes comply with contracts and regulations, oversee design and engineering deliverables, and safeguard design integrity. You will bridge teams, foster collaboration, and guarantee adherence to high-level functional and technical requirements.

Key accountabilities

As interim Systems Engineer Marine Systems- Systems Architect your responsibilities will include:

• Leading interdisciplinary design reviews, verifying engineering documents.
• Driving technical excellence through requirement management and solution development.
• Analyze and assess technical requirements related to the integration of marine systems, products, and processes.
• Ensure technical compliance of engineering documents, including traceability of requirements to contracts.
• Drive multi-disciplinary collaboration to deliver optimal solutions aligned with project goals.
• Oversee customer and classification body reviews, addressing comments to achieve agreement on requirements.
• Perform design verification and contribute to system testing, including FAT, HAT, and SAT processes.
• Participate in milestone meetings and ensure project deliverables meet schedule and quality targets.
• Expedite internal and external project contributions, ensuring timely engineering documentation delivery.

Skills & experience

Damen Naval is looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master degree in engineering or related discipline combined with a minimum of five years of hands-on experience with engineers, suppliers, subcontractors, and project managers in shipbuilding or related industries.
• Minimum five years experience in shipbuilding or a related industry with expertise in Marine Systems engineering.
• Proven project management capabilities, a strong technical background in Marine Systems, and experience in complex system manufacturing or subcontracting.
• Proficiency in English both written and verbal and German language skills are a big plus.
• Excellent references antecedents as a pre-employment security screening is standard part of the recruitment procedure.
• Permanent EU citizenship and passport are both required and candidates with NL/EU (work) visa or with both an EU and non-EU nationality and/or passport are not eligible in accordance with the requirements imposed by the military nature of our projects.

What we offer

At Damen Naval, we value our temporary team members and strive for a positive and successful collaboration. As a temporary professional on secondment basis, we offer you the following conditions:

• An attractive salary aligned with permanent staff.
• Travel allowance of 23 cents per kilometre.
• Flexibility to work from home up to two days a week.
• Challenging and innovative projects.

Other

This temporary assignment is exclusively offered on a secondment (detachering) or temporary employment contract basis. Freelance or ZZP agreements are not considered due to current Dutch legislation.

Why Damen?

Damen has 35 shipyards on five different continents and operates in more than 100 countries. We are still growing and that gives you options. You contribute to this growth while benefitting from the diverse development and career opportunities that our company offers. We will continue to challenge you. With our extensive portfolio of products and solutions you will never get bored and never stop learning. We offer you a world of possibilities. Working at Damen means contributing to the highest quality in shipbuilding, with an eye to the future and future generations. We want to make the world a better place by becoming the most sustainable maritime solution provider. For that, we need you. Become part of our family.

About Us

We are Damen. We’re a family company that has been building ships for almost 100 years. However, our focus is not on the past, however – we’re looking forward. Our ambition is to become the most sustainable and connected maritime solutions provider there is. To achieve this, we combine digital technology with our philosophy of standardised shipbuilding to offer a portfolio of services that takes care of vessels throughout the entire lifecycle. Working at Damen offers the best of several worlds. Active in more than 100 countries, with over 30 shipyards, we are internationally renowned for quality. And we are still growing, still innovating. Which means we will continue to challenge you. You will never stop learning, and you will never get bored – we promise you that. We offer you an ocean of possibilities. Join our family.